{"product_id":"coffee-and-cake-an-adoptee-in-search-of-her-past","title":"Coffee and Cake - An Adoptee in Search of Her Past","description":"\u003ch3\u003eBook Details \u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"gmail_default\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eJulia Isabell Meyers\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHardcover: 256 pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eProduct Dimensions:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 6\" x 9\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRetail Price:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e $24.95\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"gmail_default\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003eISBN: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e978-1-935001-57-7\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"gmail_default\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch3 class=\"gmail_default\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBook Description \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"gmail_default\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA journey across\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e continents and cultures, \u003cem\u003eCoffee and Cake\u003c\/em\u003e shares an adoption story through the eyes of the one who forever links strangers as family: the adoptee\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMeyers provides this often untold point of view in honest, entertaining prose, dispelling myths and providing insight along the way. This is a beautiful story of the conseq\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eu\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eences of a closed adoption and the pressures of society, and one woman’s quest to shed light on the truth.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Grab some coffee and cake and settle down for a good read and an adventure through time and place!\" - Patricia Dischler, Author of \u003cem\u003eBecause I Loved You: A Birthmother’s View of Open Adoption\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBack Cover\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJulia Meyers is an adoptee from a German closed adoption who makes the decision to shine light on the truth. In her new book, \u003cem\u003eCoffee and Cake: An Adoptee In Search of Her Past\u003c\/em\u003e, Meyers takes the reader on a journey across continents and time, as she uncove\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ers\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e the mystery of her past.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAn often untold point of view, Meyers dispels many myths in adoption as she honestly lays her emotional journey out for the reader to see. Fierce in loyalty to her adoptive parents, Meyers reveals the true motivation behind her search for her birth family: they are a part of who she is. As she uncovers the answers, new dilemmas emerge. Her family grows, yet as Meyers discovers, each has their own story to tell as well. A beautiful weave o\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ef ti\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eme and place, the book takes the reader from Germany to the United States and proves just how small our world truly is.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eReaders will come to understand how societal pressures can lead to misunderstandings, how closed adoptions deny a child’s beginnings, leaving them feeling a piece of who they are is missing, and how time does not always heal all wounds. Ultimately, the story is one of love, the growth of family, the joy of truth, the construction of self-image. Meyers provides us with a much-needed piece of the adoption puzzle and a great read to accompany an afternoon with coffee and cake!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePatricia Dischler, Author of \u003cem\u003eBecause I Loved You: A Birthmother’s View of Open Adoption\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAuthor\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJulia Isabell Meyers was born in Germany in 1968. At two months she was adopted by her loving parents and grew up with one younger brother in a small, picturesque German community. After he\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003er high school graduation in 1987, Julia completed a two-year apprenticeship at a local bank. Not being fulfilled with this profession, she began to study Cultural Anthropology at the University in Frankfurt, Germany and graduated with a Masters Degree in 1995.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the meantime, she had found her love for\u003cspan\u003e Archeology and for four years traveled throughout the world excavating in the American Southwest,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Germany and the Andes of Argentina. In 1997 she was accepted at the Ph.D. program to the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona. There she met her husband Ross and they married in 1999 in Germany. The couple has two ch\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eildren: Carmen is ten and Sean is eight. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn 1996, Julia Meyers decided to search for her birth mother, wh\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eo \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eshe met for the first time in December of the same year. In 2004, she then continued her search for her birth father, who had been an American soldier stationed in Germany. They met in December 2004. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn 2005, when her husband Ross graduated with a Ph.D. from the University of Arizona, they relocated to the Midwest, where he was born and raised. Julia finished her Ph.D. in 2007 and is now pursuing her career as a writer. Today Julia and her family are residing near Madison, Wisconsin.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Acclaim Press, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":18684027994179,"sku":"Coffee and Cake - An Adoptee in Search of Her","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0065\/2515\/7443\/products\/CoffeeAndCake_WEB.jpg?v=1551043987","url":"https:\/\/acclaim-press-inc.myshopify.com\/products\/coffee-and-cake-an-adoptee-in-search-of-her-past","provider":"Acclaim Press, Inc.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}